CRYSIS DID NOT HAVE LACKLUSTER SALES JESUS CHRIST WHY WON'T THAT THOUGHT DIE.

Crysis is on the list of best-selling PC video games with 3 million copies sold. You seem to have had pretty high expectations for its sales numbers to consider 3 million lackluster :p

Crysis 1 didn't have DRM in the online sense. It had a disc-based variant of SecuROM. It sold poorly initially because it required hardware far beyond what most people had at the time, which is commercial suicide. Funnily enough, its sales picked up a few years later when the average hardware caught up.

Crysis Warhead used online SecuROM. Crysis 2 used Origin as DRM, except the Steam version, which used Steam natively.

The interesting thing was that Crysis 2, unlike number 1, ran perfectly fine on average hardware of the day. It sold reasonably on consoles, but sold ridiculously poorly on PC (digital and retail combined, going on the basis of retail figures and Steam peak usage figures).

Ok then, I just went with what was suggested in this thread (like them being "butt-hurt" due to the sales, whatever that means then). Good to know it sold great, even with high HW requirements.

You proved exactly my point, that DRM has almost no impact on sales. Just like you, some people think about it but just juy DRMed games anyway. I dont think this kind of gamer cares THAT much about DRM, if he did he wouldnt buy the game.

Oh, and the example about taxes is a joke. Taxes are a whole different thing. Its absolutely insane to compare taxes to an entertainment product. We are forced to pay the taxes, it doesnt matter if we like it or not. Even if i dont agree with the way the goverment spends the money collected, i still have to pay them. With games its totally different, no one is forced to buy a game, and if you dont agree with a companys decision you can just boycott it and buy something else. There is a choice.

I repeat: saying that many people put up with DRM is not the same as saying that they don't give a damn about it.

You demonstrated that yourself by damning "always-online DRM" in your earlier message. Hence, you apparently do give a fjuck about DRM.

crytek just made one epic ego shooter and that was far cry.
But there are no follow ups...
Crysis was poor and i do not expect a good future for them as long as they try to multiplatform ego shooters. They will always be poor on a pc.....
Ego Shooters should be played on the pc for optimum gameplay. The consoles are just well let's admit it: more like autoaim and cutscene gameplay....